Ansible Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ansible for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Puppet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Chef, Terraform and Rudder.

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  1. Puppet icon
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    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks Puppet is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Puppet is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Ansible.

    • Puppet is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ansible.

    • Puppet is Freemium and Open SourceAnsible is also Freemium and Open Source
  2. Salt icon
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    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.

    39 Salt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Salt as an Alternative to Ansible
    psi4ick
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    Saltstack is stateful and supports features allowing to manage thousands of systems simulataneously

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    • Almost everyone thinks Salt is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Salt is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Salt is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
  3. Chef icon
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    Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.

    41 Chef alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Comments about Chef as an Alternative to Ansible
    Guest
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    0

    Jenkins and the other platforms listed are more build tools rather than a server configuration tool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Chef is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Chef is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Terraform icon
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    Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    17 Terraform alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Terraform as an Alternative to Ansible
    Nathaniel Waisbrot
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    Terraform is primarilly for creating infrastructure and Ansible is primarilly for configuring machines. Both offer tools in the other's domain and both offerings are disappointing there.

    I've been fairly happy using Terraform to create VMs and then trigger Ansible to configure them.

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    Terraform is for provisioning cloud devices, and Ansible is for bare-metal automation.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Terraform is a great Ansible alternative, some don't.

    • Terraform is Free and ProprietaryAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
  5. Rudder icon
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    Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.

    13 Rudder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
     
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    • Most users think Rudder is a great Ansible alternative.

    • Rudder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Ansible.

    • Rudder is the most popular commercial alternative to Ansible.

    • Rudder is Paid and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Rudder is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
  6. OpenTofu icon
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    OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    17 OpenTofu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  7. Pulumi icon
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    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    14 Pulumi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. GruCloud icon
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    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Yoke icon
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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
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    PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.

    5 PowerShell DSC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. chezmoi icon
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    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
     
  12. Unimus icon
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    Network automation, disaster recovery, change management and configuration auditing. Unimus is NCM software, extremely easy to deploy and use, providing a wide feature-set that will help you run your network.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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